Teen provides the building blocks of Red Cross’s new campaign

The 65-year-old construction toy has been adorning the celebrity gossip pages recently after David Beckham confessed to playing it to unwind and Warner Bros released the first ever feature film made entirely of the building bricks.

The British Red Cross is now giving Holywood a run for its money with its own online Lego-based video game, which is the centrepiece of its latest campaign, Resilience.

What’s truly brilliant about the animated video game is that it was created in a tiny Renfrewshire bedroom by a 14-year-old schoolboy.

It’s a film with a serious message but I had a lot of fun making it and I’m sure people will have fun playing the game.

Morgan Spence, a third year pupil at Johnstone High School from Kilbarchan, has been making Lego-based films for three years with a basic webcam and a laptop.

He heard about the campaign, which aims to teach people the work of the Red Cross and the importance of being able to withstand and recover from disasters at home and abroad, from his aunt who works for the humanitarian organisation.

Morgan begged his aunt to show charity bosses his work in the hope of being asked to help out.

They said yes and Morgan produced Disaster Island, a video game which uses Lego to depict scenarios for players to choose where they’d like to live but then highlights the dangers, and eventually the solutions, to problems they may face.

The video game went live on the Red Cross website on Monday and is already winning high praise on social media with Stephen Fry tweeting a link to it.

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